What about G10s to add the radius amount for the particular tool in the tool length. It can be easily done with some manual entries.

The IJK for the Haas stand for: I the amount of the first peck J the amount of reduction to the peck K the minimum amount of peck G73 Z-1. R.1 I.3 J.1 K.05 1st peck .300" Z=-.200" 2nd peck .200" Z=-.400" 3rd peck .100" Z=-.500" 4th peck .050" Z=-.550" 5th peck .050" Z=-.600" and so on.

I am assuming you want what is on top. The fillet command has the option for corner clearance. Usually it says "Normal", but you can change it to "Clearance", then you specify to radius you would like. This also works for chain filleting also.

I made some baseball bats and engraved the kids names and team name as trophies a couple of years ago. If memory serves, I used the mill contour tool path and rolled it around the cylinder. I then manually changed the A axis to C axis and the other changes necessary to machine this part on my lathe. I had to do it this way because I didn't have lathe at the time.

It has been on of those days. I meant to say that I can output arcs by using the one way cutting method. I found that if I use spiral, then it will output line segments not arcs. I need to read my own replies better. The test that I ran today was a cone that I created in a prior version of Mastercam. I imported it into X4 and changed the cutting methods. When it was set to one way, then I got arcs. When it was set to spiral, I got lines. The single row only check box, didn't seem to effect the output from my test. My tolerances Distribution was: Cut tolerance 33.4% and the Line/Arc Fileter Tolerance was 66.4%. Create arcs in XY, XZ, and YZ were all checked.

My solution to the no arc output for finish flowline is setting the cutting method to one way. I have a cone surface that I created in an earlier version of Mastercam and I brought it into X4. I changed the cutting method to spiral and I get a whole bunch of line moves. Hope this helps.

I made some copper ground lugs C110 a few months ago and I had to go with carbide drills. After about 300 holes the 5/16 drill was small by about .007". I would also look at thread milling instead of tapping. Copper seems to want to pinch around the drill.

What kind of boring bar are you using? It looks like the chamfer isn't the same. I have run into similar problems and I have tracked them down to how I defined my boring tools.

I just went to the machine and tried G12.1 in MDI mode. The control will not accept a decimal with the G code. I am going to try some of the prior suggestion tonight. I will share what I find out. Thanks for the help.

That is my guess also.

MayDay. I will try the mill tool paths. I haven't used them in a lathe before. Chris. The machine is a '95 machine with the Fanuc 0T control. When we purchased it a few years ago, it didn't come with any of the Fanuc manuals, so I don't know if it has the conversion capabilities.

I am using the c axis toolpath.

It posts out all the stuff I need. There is just a lot of it. I am currently modifying by hand (I was half afraid I my have to stick with this route) just as you suggest. What I think I want, I might not be able to get. I was hoping that I was missing a parameter setting. Thanks for the reply Ron

Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a parameter that I am missing? Thanks.

The code that I am getting is a linear move, not a circular move, because it is just two points, Z and C. I am thinking that something is breaking up the linear moves to some distance. That would explain the differences due to the size of the arc.

I am looking at the Rotary Axis Control and the Axis substitution is grayed out. I only have the option of Y axis and C axis. My lathe is only XZC. The geometry that I am picking is an arc of the appropriate OD.

I need some help. I have an Amera-Seiki TC-2L with live tooling. I have a family of parts that have various face grooves ranging from .015" to .090" width with ODs on the grooves from .095" to .940". I am ramping the appropriate sized endmill to make the face groove to the desired depth. The problem that I am having is that as the OD of the groove gets larger, the code expands dramatically. The smaller grooves were defining the end points 180 degrees apart and .001" deep, which is OK but not ideal. While the largest groove defines the end points 5.373 degrees apart and from .0001" to .0002" deep. Ideally, the code would be the depth of the groove and the total degrees to make the groove, ie Z-.03" C1152. I am in the process of modifying the mlmaster for X4 to get the code right for my machine. I have tried a little of the cordial deviation in the c axis face contour operation, but I got some X values which are not appropriate. Any help would be appreciated.

I found a glaring error. I was resetting t$ to the last tool in my list. Below is some of what I had to change to remove this error. There are some other errors that I am working on. John. Yes, I remember the size1=rbuf(1,0) to reset the rc1 back to 1. I would probably need something for the wc1 because as is, I lose the location of the end of the file. Thanks, I will keep that in mind and try to make a little more bullet proof code. Thanks. code: preadbuf1 #read buffer 1 size1 = rbuf(1,0) while rc1 <= size1, [ toolnum = rbuf(1,rc1) if tooltype >=0, [ preadbuf2 scomm_str, toolnum, ptspacecust, " - ", plistcomm, " - " tooldiam, punit, " - ", toollength if tooltype >= 10, [ if toolradi$ > 0, [ptspacecust, " - ", tooloffset, " - ", toolradi, punit] else, [ptspace, " - ", tooloffset] ] scomm_end, e$ ] ]

I know that this is long but, I tried to keep it as on topic as best that I could. My goal was to sort the tool list in accending order. Below is a sample header for with unsorted tools and sorted tools. code: O0001 (TEST) (-MATERIAL------------------------) (6061 T6 8.375" X .82" X .75" XYZ) (-SETUP---------------------------) (-TOOLS---------------------------) (T20 - 2 1/2" SECO SHELL MILL - D2.5000" - H20 - D20 - R0.0313") (T19 - 3/4 FLAT ENDMILL GARR - D0.7500" - H19 - D19) (T1 - 1/4 X 120 SPOT DRILL - D0.2500" - H1) (T2 - #34 DRILL - D0.1110" - H2) (T12 - #38 DRILL - D0.1015" - H12) (T18 - 1/4 FLAT ENDMILL GARR - D0.2500" - H18 - D18) (T17 - 1/8 FLAT ENDMILL - D0.1250" - H17 - D17) (T16 - 1/4 90 DEG CHAMFER MILL - D0.2500" - H16 - D16) (sorted tools) (T1 - 1/4 X 120 SPOT DRILL - D0.2500" - H1) (T2 - #34 DRILL - D0.1110" - H2) (T12 - #38 DRILL - D0.1015" - H12) (T16 - 1/4 90 DEG CHAMFER MILL - D0.2500" - H16 - D16) (T17 - 1/8 FLAT ENDMILL - D0.1250" - H17 - D17) (T18 - 1/4 FLAT ENDMILL GARR - D0.2500" - H18 - D18) (T19 - 3/4 FLAT ENDMILL GARR - D0.7500" - H19 - D19) (T20 - 2 1/2" SECO SHELL MILL - D2.5000" - H20 - D20 - R0.0313") (-TOOL PROJECTIONS----------------) (-NOTES---------------------------) (-REV CHANGE NOTES----------------) (OVERALL MIN - Z-.4574) To acheive the sorting requires two buffers. Buffer 1 for numerical data and Buffer 2 for the Tool Comment Data (string data) code: # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Buffer 1 - Holds the tool table information # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- toolnum : 0 tooltype : -1 tooldiam : 0 toollength : 0 tooloffset : 0 toolradi : 0 rc1 : 1 wc1 : 1 size1 : 0 fbuf 1 0 6 0 0 # Buffer 1 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Buffer 2 - Holds the tool comment information # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- strtoolstring : snull rc2 : 1 wc2 : 1 size2 : 0 fbuf 2 0 80 0 1 # Buffer 2 I will give all the parameters of fbuf for completeness. I had to do a lot of looking to get a resonably complete picture. Parameter 1 - The buffer number (Limited to 10 buffers max) Parameter 2 - Keep flag (=1 to save. This flag outputs the contents of the buffer to a file. In my case the file is in mill/nci and named test.tx2 (program name?, and the tx + buffer number therefore tx2) Parameter 3 - Number of records (If numerical data, then the number of variables to be stored in the buffer. If string data, then the number of characters you wish to store, but only one variable aka string.) Parameter 4 - Initialize flag (I haven't used it yet.) Parameter 5 - Buffer type (0 = numeric, 1 = string) The above parameters I got from Roger Martin's post from Recalling Comments thread. In order to get the tools in accending order, I had to initialize the buffers to some size with dummy variables, ie since I have 20 tools in the carosels, I went up to 40 sets of numerical variables (buffer 1) and string variables (buffer 2) code: pinitbuff1 #initialize buffer 1 toolnum = 1 while wc1 <= 40, #number of pockets [ toolnum = wbuf(1, wc1) pinitbuff2 toolnum = toolnum + 1 ] pinitbuff2 #initialize buffer 2 from buffer 1 strtoolstring = wbuf(2, wc2) wc1 and wc2 are initialized to 1 in the buffer delcarations. That appears to be the only time you will know the value of those variable and when they are used, they will increment themselves by 1. If you need to jump around to different record in the buffer, you will need to set these values. I had to do this when writing to the buffers because the tools are in order of use, so placed the tool information in the buffer according to the tool number as demonstrated below. code: pwritbuf1 #write buffer 1 toolnum = t$ tooltype = tool_typ$ tooldiam = tldia$ toollength = tlngno$ tooloffset = tloffno$ toolradi = tcr$ pwritbuf2 wc1 = toolnum <---- toolnum = wbuf(1, wc1) pwritbuf2 #write buffer 2 from pwritbuf1 strtoolstring = strtool$ wc2 = toolnum <---- strtoolstring = wbuf(2, wc2) If a tool is called multiple times in different parts of the program, it isn't a problem because the information will be over written and since it is the same information there isn't a problem. Then I just read out the buffer in accending order and the tools are sorted. code: preadbuf1 #read buffer 1 size1 = rbuf(1,0) while rc1 <= size1, [ toolnum = rbuf(1,rc1) if tooltype >=0, [ t$ = toolnum tool_typ$ = tooltype tldia$ = tooldiam tlngno$ = toollength tloffno$ = tooloffset tcr$ = toolradi preadbuf2 scomm_str, *t$, ptspace, " - ", plistcomm, " - " *tldia$, punit, " - ", *tlngno$ if tool_typ$ >= 10, [ if tcr$ > 0, ptspace, " - ", *tloffno$, " - ", *tcr$, punit else, ptspace, " - ", *tloffno$ ] scomm_end, e$ ] ] preadbuf2 #read buffer 2 from preadbuf2 rc2 = toolnum strtoolstring = rbuf(2, rc2) strtool$ = strtoolstring My next challenge will be to get the comments from the tool plane, so I can parse this string and arrange it into a format of my choosing. The wonderful thing, is that I don't need another buffer to do it.

Ron. You bet I will. I will make something up today and my thinking behind it and post it here. This forum has help me tremendously over the years and I am honored to contribute a little bit.

With some experimentations, it appears that for an X post, the 3rd parameter is the number of characters you want in your string. It appears that you can set it to anything you want, but I imagine that some controls have a hard time with more than 80 characters. The 5th parameter sets the buffer for numeric or string (0 and 1 respectively). I figured the problem had to be something simple and a problem with the way I set it up.

I found the problem!! I didn't realize that a string buffer consists of one variable, but the third parameter (# of records) is the number of characters that make up the variable. I want to thank all the people that replied to the posts that I searched here on the forum.

Has anyone had a chance to look at the above? Am I declaring the string variable incorrectly? Am I declaring the buffer incorrectly? Am I not passing it to the buffer correctly? Any help to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.

I am attempting to output the tool list in accending order, not the order of use. Currently, I am using two buffers, 1 and 2. Buffer 1 stores the number information of the tool while buffer 2 stores the tool comment string. I am having problems with storing the comment string. Below is the buffer delcarations and the output that I am getting. I am using X3 MU1 and the post: Haas developed from MPMaster. Thank you. code: # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Buffer 1 - Holds the tool table information # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- toolnum : 0 tooltype : -1 tooldiam : 0 toollength : 0 tooloffset : 0 toolradi : 0 rc1 : 1 wc1 : 1 size1 : 0 fbuf 1 0 6 0 0 # Buffer 1 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Buffer 2 - Holds the tool comment information # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- strtoolstring : " " rc2 : 1 wc2 : 1 size2 : 0 fbuf 2 0 1 0 1 # Buffer 2 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Buffer 1 Read / Write Routines and set # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- pinitbuff1 #initialize buffer 1 *toolnum = 1 while wc1 <= 40, #number of pockets [ toolnum = wbuf(1, wc1) pinitbuff2 toolnum = toolnum + 1 ] pwritbuf1 #write buffer 1 toolnum = t$ tooltype = tool_typ$ tooldiam = tldia$ toollength = tlngno$ tooloffset = tloffno$ toolradi = tcr$ pwritbuf2 wc1 = toolnum toolnum = wbuf(1, wc1) preadbuf1 #read buffer 1 size1 = rbuf(1,0) while rc1 <= size1, [ toolnum = rbuf(1,rc1) if tooltype >=0, [ t$ = toolnum tool_typ$ = tooltype tldia$ = tooldiam tlngno$ = toollength tloffno$ = tooloffset tcr$ = toolradi preadbuf2 scomm_str, *t$, ptspace, " - ", plistcomm, " - " *tldia$, punit, " - ", *tlngno$ if tool_typ$ >= 10, [ if tcr$ > 0, ptspace, " - ", *tloffno$, " - ", *tcr$, punit else, ptspace, " - ", *tloffno$ ] scomm_end, e$ ] ] # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Buffer 2 Read / Write Routines and set # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- pinitbuff2 #initialize buffer 2 from buffer 1 strtoolstring = wbuf(2, wc2) pwritbuf2 #write buffer 2 from pwritbuf1 strtoolstring = strtool$ wc2 = toolnum strtoolstring = wbuf(2, wc2) preadbuf2 #read buffer 2 from preadbuf2 rc2 = toolnum strtoolstring = rbuf(2, rc2) strtool$ = strtoolstring O0001 (HAMMER 2ND) (-MATERIAL------------------------) (ACETAL 3.8125" X 1.575" X .75" XYZ) (-SETUP---------------------------) (-TOOLS---------------------------) (T19 - 1/2 FLAT ENDMILL GARR - D0.5000" - H19 - D19) (T20 - 2 1/2" SECO SHELL MILL - D2.5000" - H20 - D20 - R0.0313") (T17 - .062 RAD CORNER - D0.0625" - H17 - D17 - R0.0620") (sorted tools) (T17 - ÅÜÄA - D0.0625" - H17 - D17 - R0.0620") (T19 - Ÿ - D0.5000" - H19 - D19) (T20 - Ÿ - D2.5000" - H20 - D20 - R0.0313") (-TOOL PROJECTIONS----------------) (-NOTES---------------------------) (-REV CHANGE NOTES----------------) (OVERALL MIN - Z2.0625)